Prairie State Wire

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker envisions Illinois as a state women can turn to for abortions.

The governor asked the Biden administration for more federal funding to support doctors providing telehealth services, the Chicago Tribune reported.

“J.B. Pritzker has an extreme and ghoulish position on abortion," said Mike Koolidge, spokesman for the political action committee, People Who Play by the Rules. "He supports allowing it to a healthy mother and child all the way up to birth, or even after birth if the parents don’t want their child. That’s infanticide. This is an extreme and disturbing position and polls show it thankfully represents the views of a very small sliver of our state.”

In 2019, Pritzker signed the Reproductive Health Care Act allowing women to legally have abortions at any point during their pregnancy, the Washington Times reported.  

Pritzker's plan might align with a larger percentage of the population, but his stance on when termination is legal does not. According to a Gallup poll conducted in 2018, there is a steep drop-in support of abortion being legal after the 2nd trimester as 77% of Americans believe that it should be illegal in the final three months.                

Illinois specifically, allows abortion at any point during pregnancy and only five other countries allow this, Canada, China, Vietnam, North Korea, and South Korea, according to the Family Research Council.                  

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) who has expressed similar views to Pritzker in the past, has called for the Biden administration to set up Planned Parenthood clinics on federal land in Republican-led states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade, Breitbart reported.

The Biden administration denied Warren’s request as the White House press secretary stated the idea could have "dangerous ramifications," the New York Post reported.     

Illinois GOP gubernatorial nominee Darren Bailey believes the country needs to find a solution together.

 "Banning abortion is not a solution, we have got to work together,” Bailey said on WGN 10 Radio.